Plans to create a joint venture company to run defence procurement may not address the "core issues" causing time and cost overruns on defence schemes, a senior consultant has said.
A second health trust has been given the go-ahead to build new community hospitals through the Express Lift framework.
The former Metronet PPP contracts to upgrade and operate nine Tube lines have been transferred to the public sector, Lord Adonis, the Transport Secretary, confirmed yesterday.
The Ministry of Justice has started the search for sites for the remaining three of five 1,500-place prisons it plans to build using PFI.
Delays in approving new health projects could see the public sector miss out on "massive" savings from lower construction costs, a leading Lift investor has warned.
Yorkshire’s waste PFI is the latest to be hit by the economic downturn, following well-publicised delays on other major waste schemes.
The public finances could be restored to health far more quickly if the government increased its engagement with the private sector, Adrian Ringrose has said.
The pressure is on John Laing to prove that its flagship urban regeneration vehicle can deliver results in a depressed property market, the company's chief executive has said.
Partnerships projects must become more efficient and simpler, the shadow Construction Minister has said, in the latest Tory attack on PPP.
PFI credits should be abolished to give councils true freedom over capital investment, a think-tank has urged.
Seven contractors will compete for a place on a new framework to deliver five 1,500-place PFI prisons.
The North Bristol NHS Trust is trying to get pension funds to back its £430m hospital scheme, in the first concrete sign institutional investors could return to PFI funding.
Fifteen companies have been appointed to the new £4bn academy schools framework.
The head of the school-building agency has set out plans for the programme's survival in the new 'austerity' age, by removing duplicated programmes and making better use of existing council buildings.
The Treasury will look again at how competitive dialogue is being used on PPP projects, following mounting concern over the increased cost and time delays many believe it creates.
Privately financed infrastructure will continue even under a Conservative government, despite Tory claims they would "do away with it", says the head of contractor John Laing.
A Scottish think-tank has devised an infrastructure financing model to replace PFI – which would see the private sector put up just 10% of funding.
The government’s newly launched delivery agency Local Partnerships has appointed a chief executive.
The agency in charge of Building Schools for the Future (BSF) has been attacked for paying out bonuses worth £1.2m.
PFI performance over the last 15 years cannot be properly measured because of poor public sector data management, a PFI expert told a House of Lords committee yesterday.